SteveH11 Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 Good day people. Here's one For ya:<br><br>What are the hardware specs for the first PC you ever built from the ground up. Include the year and cost.<br><br>ABIT mobo<br>Pentium II @ 266MHz<br>ATI expert @ play AGP 1x vid card <br>Diamond Monster 3dfx addon vid card<br>SoundBlaster AWE 64 gold sound card<br>64 meg SDRAM <br>6 gig 5400rpm HD<br>Viewsonic 19" monitor.<br>Altec/Lansing 200 watt sound w/sub <br>Microsoft Ergonomic keys<br>Logitech mouseman<br>16 x Creative CDrom<br>56k USRobotics modom...Upgraded to V90...WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!I <br><br>I thought I was the BOMB. Then 3 weeks later P III comes out. I believe it was December 98/Jan99 And I spent 2500 bucks. It amazes me what 2500 would buy now. Have fun Y'all.<br><br>Steve<br><br>edited to save space. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighawk211 Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 I can't remember the exact month, but it was in "99" 650MHz P3 128Mb SD ram 17 GB 5400 RPM HD 17" Compaq Color monitor Cambridge Soundworks Cord Mouse Keyboard Nvidia vid card with 32Mb CD-ROM Floppy Drive ..and a 28.8 Lucent modem oh and the price... 2400 USD Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveH11 Posted June 26, 2005 Author CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 It's amazing to see how quickly technology went up back then. They've been stuck at the below 4 gig mark for some time.(granted that's all about to change with 64 bit and sli.) When I built that machine it was state of the art...with the exception of the 266 P2. I could've chosen a 300 MHz processor, but opted for the 3dfx card. Quake 2 screamed on that machine. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbaker397 Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 486 pentium. 4x cd rom 8mb of ram 15" monitor i dont remember what video it had in. The BIGGEST soundcard I have ever seen, i still have it I think Mouse Keyboard 8gb hard drive This was in the mid 90's I believe Paid roughly $2500 for it, Now I have a P4 3.2ghz 1024mb ram cheapo cd burner nvidia 5700 ultra Sound Blaster 2. 160GB HDD Paid about 900 bucks for it.... goes to show as technology advanced, prices went down Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
resijs Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 1998 Pentium MMX 200 mhrz EDO ram 80. (Plus 16 built in.) Voodoo2 16 megs 17" CRT 56k v90 3 gig hd All for $50 It came with others, and the motherboard could go up to 233 mhrz and 128 ram. lol... 2 PCI and 2 ISA(sp?) ports. Build in USB, but the company made a booboo and the motherboard couldn't support it yet, it had the ports. LoL, talk about price. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveH11 Posted June 26, 2005 Author CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 8 MB ram. Amazing eh? Remember Tandy portable cassette deck drives ? Cripes I remember taking computer class in 7th grade and using punchcards.<br><br>TBaker.."biggest sound card ever" LOL :haha: I could park my car in the tower on that first machine I had. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
resijs Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 Ah man, I remember the punch cards! rofl. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveH11 Posted June 26, 2005 Author CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 2 hours to see "my name is steve" Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wmmc Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 1995, Packard Bell, store bought, around $2500. 486 33 MHz (upgraded to 66 MHz) 4 MB Ram (upgraded to 12 MB) 210 MB Hard Drive (upgraded to 2 Gigs) 2400 Baud modem Sound and Video dont recall. First real computer, before that a Commodore Vic20. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveH11 Posted June 26, 2005 Author CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 WMMC...who even made video for 486 era pc's? Was your modem the kind where you stuck the phone ear/mouth into a reciever ??? 4 meg of ram used to be so much eh ??? Back then though, that PC was probably awesome.<br><br>Did you run that 1st windows ? could win 95 run on it. ? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wmmc Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 Internal modem, before I had the chance to upgrade the modem got another much faster PC. Edit: Forgot about OS. At first it was Windows for Workgroups 3.11 then bought Win 95 upgrade. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveH11 Posted June 26, 2005 Author CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 Right, win 3.11. I still have friends who wish they could use dos. I went with win 95...I guess cos that's all there was . When win 98 came out my machine was already becoming obsolete. 2500 bucks seems to be the averrage rate for the bomb PC of the time. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wmmc Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 That I could not answer, knew nothing about computers when I bought that Packard Bell. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbaker397 Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 the bomb pc, by todays standards, but back then, wow was it fast. and My first tower was almost eh, i would have to say about 2.5-3 feet tall and probably 1.5-2 feet wide. Haha steveH Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
netmasta Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 I haven't built one yet. I do remember my first computer though. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkieXL Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 Sept. 1997....bought all parts at a computer fair in topsfield, mass. from a shady character with a tractor-trailer full of parts: Case: Acer Mobo/CPU: mobo was never known; CPU was a horrific 1st generation Pentium100 mhz. RAM: 2x16mb SDRam.. HD: ~800 Mb. & very slowwwwwww lol Audio: Turtle Beach Video: Acer on-board if i recall; it was total gypsy Modem: originally a 14.4 external; big upgrade to 56k right before we dropped it of the roof at my job ( 8 stories ).... Signs of the Times: AOL 2.0 was all the rage... Prodigy Internet was still in business... Netscape was preferred over IE... Millions of Win95 users hacked by BackOrifice due to a default file-sharing setting in Win95... Thank God, time marches on ~! ;) -JxL Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bones_McGhee Posted June 26, 2005 CID Share Posted June 26, 2005 Modem: originally a 14.4 external; big upgrade to 56k right before we dropped it of the roof at my job ( 8 stories ).... We did that with a Dreamcast after it failed to work. Boy, it was fun. Did you get it on film? :haha: We did. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmostHuman Posted June 27, 2005 CID Share Posted June 27, 2005 first was not a pc, but a mac (prox 1991) a Mac IIsi had a 20 mhz processor (could actually hear it writing on the 3.5 floppy) 80 mb hard drive the first "real" graphics prog was aldus freehand... it came on 4 or 6 floppys... don't remember the cost, but it was real expensive paired with a laser printer, a HP laser jet III, spent thousands on it ( $2,000 or $3,000) how times have changed p.s all those laughs are because it sux to cry Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
resijs Posted June 27, 2005 CID Share Posted June 27, 2005 You can still hear your computer writing to the floppy today! gg Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliguy Posted June 27, 2005 CID Share Posted June 27, 2005 Samsung 286 or 265, 33MHz with no hard drive but a hugh 5.25 inch floppy of cos with awesome DOS black and white display ah good ole days!! I paid some what 1200 dollars or more? dont remember, compare to my freind's commodore with his12 inch kitchen TV hooked up mine was state of the art in that time Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigw Posted June 27, 2005 CID Share Posted June 27, 2005 Well.... I have never built my own either. My father built all of mine. Now that he is gone i will have to build my own..... It almost seems cheaper to buy them. I did have one of the old TI's with the tape player hard drive. Spent many hours programing. Sad thing is got into high school and the ti-85 i used was the same thing basically. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-57975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutest Posted June 27, 2005 CID Share Posted June 27, 2005 I don't exactly had that first computer, but it was first computer in my house. as much as i remember it was 386 with 10mb harddrive. and the game of "Digger" was wooow!!! i used to think to myself that what else can we expect now that we have 3inch floopy and game like digger and also a "Turbo" button which use to make game work fast. well thats all i remember about my first computer. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-58010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
resijs Posted June 27, 2005 CID Share Posted June 27, 2005 Heh, I just remembered, that 200mhrz computer was upgraded alot, it was originally 133 mhrz with 16 megs of ram. And actually before that, I had another computer. It could only run Windows 3.1 and that's all I remember of it. hehe Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-58011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VampireXxX Posted June 29, 2005 CID Share Posted June 29, 2005 My 1st was 486DX, 4x speed, 8 Mb RAM, 5.25" and 1.44" FDD, Quantum HDD, sb16, s3 vga card, wearnes' casing monitor keyboard and mouse. I still have 5.25" 's game for collection Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-58400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lantom Posted June 29, 2005 CID Share Posted June 29, 2005 LOL, OK I'm OLD!!!!! 286-16 as in 16megahertz. 16meg ram 15inch NEC "3D" color monitor. A few other Sweet!!! Upgrades for only $3,700.00 Thats right, what a deal I got...... So hot and sweet. One of the first 16's EVER!!! Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/5623-your-first-pc/#findComment-58401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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